* Home Again: Kitty Dukakis, wife of...

* Home Again: Kitty Dukakis, wife of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, has completed medical treatment and returned to their Brookline, Mass., home. Dukakis was hospitalized in November after drinking a small amount of rubbing alcohol. The governor’s spokeswoman, Mindy Lubber, said Monday night that Dukakis probably would write a book on her husband’s presidential campaign.

* Taxing Work: Debra Murphree, the former prostitute who reportedly had a liaison with preacher Jimmy Swaggart, will not get to spend most of the $210,000 that Penthouse reportedly paid for her story. Murphree will receive about $54,000, and her agents, attorneys and the IRS will get the rest, said her attorney, Louis H. Schultz. “She’s happy. I talked with her on the telephone,” Schultz said Monday in New Orleans. Murphree claimed in the magazine in 1988 that the TV evangelist paid her $20 a visit in 1987 to strike prurient poses and perform sexual acts. Swaggart had tearfully confessed in February, 1988, to an unspecified “moral failure” and was subsequently defrocked by his church.

* A Loss They Can Afford: Philadelphia Eagles football coach Buddy Ryan fired the first volley in a friendly weight-loss competition among six of pro football’s heavier coaches. “Art Shell can afford to lose about three people,” Ryan said Monday in New York of the Los Angeles Raiders’ head coach. The coaches--Shell (338 pounds), Bill Parcells, New York Giants (265); Ryan (258); Joe Gibbs, Washington Redskins (240); Chuck Knox, Seattle Seahawks (236), and Dan Henning, San Diego Chargers (222)--are in a diet program to raise money for research to combat paralysis. The program is sponsored by a diet plan that will contribute $500 for every pound lost.